Causal nets: a modeling language tailored towards process discovery

  • Authors:
  • Wil Van Der Aalst;Arya Adriansyah;Boudewijn Van Dongen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Concurrency theory
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Process discovery--discovering a process model from example behavior recorded in an event log--is one of the most challenging tasks in process mining. The primary reason is that conventional modeling languages (e.g., Petri nets, BPMN, EPCs, and ULM ADs) have difficulties representing the observed behavior properly and/or succinctly. Moreover, discovered process models tend to have deadlocks and livelocks. Therefore, we advocate a new representation more suitable for process discovery: causal nets. Causal nets are related to the representations used by several process discovery techniques (e.g., heuristic mining, fuzzy mining, and genetic mining). However, unlike existing approaches, we provide declarative semantics more suitable for process mining. To clarify these semantics and to illustrate the non-local nature of this new representation, we relate causal nets to Petri nets.